Elkayam, Yaakov

Born in 1890 in Algeria, he served in the French Navy during the First World War, and after joining his family, he settled in Alexandria, where he became a driver in the Department of Public Works of the Mandatory Government in the Haifa District. During his work he knew many of the inhabitants of the country, Arabs, Circassians and Druzes. On August 4, 1938, while driving in his car on the Haifa-Hadera road, he found himself ambushed by an Arab gang that had set fire to it. Yaakov was wounded in the head and killed on the spot. He was brought to eternal rest in the Haifa cemetery. He left a wife and a son.